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  • Productivity

    Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options

    [repost from Stephen Forte's Blog] See also: Part I: When to build your data warehouse Part II: Building a new schema Part III: Location of your data warehouse Part IV: Extraction, Transformation, and Load In Part I we looked at the advantages of building a data warehouse independent of cubes/a BI system and in Part II we looked at how to architect a data warehouse’s table schema. In Part III, we looked at where to put the data warehouse tables. In Part IV, we are going to look at how to populate those tables and keep them in sync with your OLTP system. Today, our last part in this...
    October 01, 2010 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Silverlight Testing Best Practices

    Join our training and consulting partners Falafel Software for a FREE Webinar which will discuss and demonstrate best practices in testing Silverlight applications using Telerik's WebUI Test Studio QA Edition  Wednesday, September 29, 2010  9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT Register now Read more on Telerik Automated Testing Tools P.S. If you are in San Diego for the STARWEST Software Testing Conference don't forget to stop by our shiny booth! You can also join the virtual event today.
    September 29, 2010 1 min read
  • Productivity Debugging

    Isolating a Problem in a Sample Project

    If you have contacted Telerik support before, chances are that you have been asked to send us a sample project. The time invested in isolating a problem before opening a ticket is well paid off. Such tickets require less time for investigation and are usually closed with only one or two replies. In almost all cases the problem can be easily isolated by following a few simple guidelines. Here they are.
    September 29, 2010 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Building a Data Warehouse Part IV: Extraction, Transformation, and Load

    [repost from Stephen Forte's Blog] See also: Part I: When to build your data warehouse Part II: Building a new schema Part III: Location of your data warehouse In Part I we looked at the advantages of building a data warehouse independent of cubes/a BI system and in Part II we looked at how to architect a data warehouse’s table schema. In Part III, we looked at where to put the data warehouse tables. Today we are going to look at how to populate those tables and keep them in sync with your OLTP system. No matter where your data warehouse is located, the biggest challenge with a...
    September 28, 2010 5 min read
  • Productivity

    Mocking SPContext.Current with JustMock

    Today, I happen to find an interesting post on mocking SharePoint context using TypeMock. Being a JustMocker, i thought rather to follow the footsteps and see if can do the same with JustMock. I am no SharePoint expert. Occasionally, I use a Windows 2003 VM with SharePoint server installed which gives me the required flavor of SharePoint for testing  SP capabilities of JM. Anyway, here is the original post that i am going to recycle using JustMock. http://meronymy.blogspot.com/2010/09/mocking-spcontextcurrent-with-typemock.html   The scenario here is pretty simple. There is a method that returns an URL from the current SPContext which i am going to mock in order...
    September 27, 2010 1 min read